Clip for holding papers, clothing, &amp;c.



No850,903; I y PATENTED APR.23,1907. F. M. BULKLEY.

I 'GLIP FOR HOLDING PAPERS, CLOTHING, 6w. urmomqlor FILED AUG.8,'1906.

WITNESSES' mvE/vro/r I ATTORNEY THE NORRIS Psrszs 60-. wAsl-nndrou. o c

FRANK M. BULKLEY, or BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

CLIP FOR HOLDING PAPERS, CLOTHING, 81.0.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 23, 1907.

Application filed August 8,1906- Serial No. 329,675.

To ctZl 1.0700171 it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK M. BULKLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Bridgeport, county of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, h aveinvented. a new and useful Clip forHolding Papers, Clothing, &c., ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the class of clips for holding tablets,papers, clothing, &c., illustrated and described in Letters Patent No.765,553, granted to me July 19, 1904, and h as for its object tosimplify and cheapen and to generally improve the construction thereof,an. important feature of the present construction being that the membersand the spring are so constructed that the spring may be formed completeand tempered ready-for use and may then be readily sprung into placewithout the use of tools and by any person not necessarily a skilledmechanic, the spring when in place being selfretaining and also actingto retain the mem here in position relatively to each other.

With these and other objects in view I have devised the simple and novelclip of which the following description, in connection with theaccompanying drawings, is a specification, reference characters beingused to indicate the several parts.

Figure 1 is an elevation illustrating a form of the invention in whichone of the members is a plate, preferably inclined, is fixed in positionrelatively to the other member, and is provided with a clamp forattachment to the standard of a desk-telephone or to any simi lar fixedor movable part; Fig. 2, a section on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1; Fig. 3, anelevation showing in full lines a form of clip having correspondingmembers and adapted for use upon a desk to hold a number of papers andalso showing in dotted lines a plate, which' may he of metal or wood,one of said plates being attached to each member of the clip to adapt itto serve a trousers-holder; and Fig.

4 is an elevation illustrating a form differing from the form in Fig. 1in that one of the members is made in two parts, one of said parts beinga board, and duplicate springs are used, one end. of each springengaging a plate to which the board is attached.

My novel clip comprises, essentially, two members, (indicated by 10 and11,) and a U- shaped spring, (indicated by 12.) The shape of thememfiers is wholly immaterial so far as the present invention isconcerned. They may correspond with each other or be wholly movablerelatively to the other.

dissimilar in size and shape, and one or both may be movable relativelyto the other. The essential feature is that each member is provided witha plurality of spaces forming .a plurality of crosspieces, thecross-pieces nearest the gripping-surfaces being indicated by 13 and thecross-pieces farthest from the gripping-surfaces being indicated by 14.The spring is formed from a plain strip of metal free from slots orrecesses, and therefore with its strength unimpaired, said spring beingbent to substantially U shape and having its ends turnedoutward, as at'15, to engage the edges of cross-pieces 14 farthest from. the grippingsurfaces, the spaces between the cross-pieces being of a width equal toor greater than the width of the spring.

In the form illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 one of the members is a metalplate and is provided with a clamp 16 to adapt it for attachment inplace, as to the standard of a desk-telephone, the plate preferablylying at an angle to the horizontal plane for c0nve11- ience in use.

In the form illustrated in Fig. 3 the n1em-. bers correspond with eachother, and each is This form may be adapted for use as a trousers-holderby riveting or otherwise securing to the gripping portions plates 17,(indicated by dotted lines,) which may be of metal or wood.

In the form illustrated in Fig. 4 one of the members is made in twoparts, which. are indicated specifically by 11 and 11*. Part 11'" is ofmetal and is provided with crosspieces to retain one end of the spring,as in the other forms. Part 11 may be made of metal, wood, pasteboard,vulcanized fiber, or any suitable material, part 1 1 being riveted orotherwise rigidly secured thereto. In this form, as indicated in thedrawings, the meni- -bers are made larger to adapt the clip for heavierwork, and duplicate springs are used, the cross-pieces 13 and 14 beingbraced and strengthened by a vertical strip 18.

The springs are formed to the required shape from a strip of uniformwidth and free from slots or recesses and are then tempered. The act ofassembling consists merely in springing the tempered springs into place.Each arm of a spring is passed outward through the opening under thecross-piece 13 of a member and then inward and upward through theopening between the cross-pieces so that each arm engages the outersurface of one cross-piece and the inner plurality of cross-pieces, anda U-shapedsurface of the next cross-piece, the outwardlyspringof-substantially uniform width passing turned end 15 of the springengaging the edge I outward and inward through said openings ofcross-piece 14 farthest from the gripping I and engaging alternatelyouter and inner 5 portion of the member. When once in place, 1 faces ofthe cross-pieces and yieldingly hold- 20 the spring is self-retaining bymeans of the ing the said two members together, the endsoutwardly-turned ends and locks the two of the spring being bent andengaging the members securely in place, the spring itself edges of thecross-pieces farthest from the being the sole connection between the twogripping portions of the members. 10 clip members and unimpaired instrength by In testimony whereof I affix my signature 25 any slots orrecesses. in presence of two witnesses.

Having thus described my invention, I FRANK M. BULKLEY. claim WitnessesA clip comprising two members each pro- A. M. WOOSTER,

15 vided with a plurality of openings forming a S. W. ATHERTON.

